Royder

Royder presents as a man past his prime years, his black hair matched by a patchy goatee. A beige newsboy cap tops his head. His outfit centers on a gray jacket worn over a white dress shirt, with a red tie hanging loose at the collar, gray trousers, and a brown belt completing the look. Three decades earlier he cut a slimmer figure with no facial hair, dressing in a dark shirt, a plaid vest, a pale jacket, and a light cap stitched with his name.

Royder reacted much as the general public did, gripped by fear once Ace was exposed as Roger's offspring and unnerved by the sheer power on display at Marineford. Years before, as a younger man, he was equally rattled when word reached him of Harald's deeds.

Thirty-three years before the war, Royder questioned a fisherman who claimed to have crossed paths with a monstrous creature, later identified as Harald, that struck a pirate ship hidden in mist. The reporter pressed him on whether the run-in had happened in the dreaded Florian Triangle, but the fisherman said otherwise. Come the Marineford conflict, the town stood emptied, its Marine families evacuated to Sabaody, where they and a swarm of reporters tracked the fight on giant screens fed from the battlefield. Royder was the first in the throng to call out that Ace had reached the execution platform. When Sengoku declared the prisoner to be Roger's son, Royder and everyone around him recoiled in horror, and he watched the remainder of the war play out with the crowd.